Derek Jarman
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Sep 17, 2026
Öykü SofuoğluHOST
And, uh, I mean, it's, um, annoying to say that like the festival program is, is, is not good, so I won't tell that.
Öykü SofuoğluHOST
Um, but I had some highlights here, um, especially documentary that was, uh, premiered and out of competition called, uh, Queer Edward II, which takes place in, um, during Derek Jarman's Edward II.
Öykü SofuoğluHOST
And it's actually, um, taken from an archival footage that was believed to be like, um, lost or like at least, um, the cinematographer, Seamus McGarvey, who shot this film, uh, as a young cameraman, believed to be lost.
Öykü SofuoğluHOST
And, uh, Theo Rowlas- Rowlason, who made this film, is ba- uh, basically uses his archival material to, uh, depict a broader, the broader picture of British society in the early '90s, how Britain is going through the, some political changes regarding homosexuality, but also since, uh, Jarman was also diagnosed with AIDS in, couple of years ago, he's also dealing with AIDS.
Öykü SofuoğluHOST
Like not, it's not just about like everything is going well, but it's, there are like groups who are v- solid, who, who support, uh, each other obviously, but also have a lot of tensions regarding certain, uh, concepts and, and approaches of like...
Öykü SofuoğluHOST
They, for example, there's a very interesting scene because, um, during the sh- the shoot, uh, there's a musician who's like right-wing, uh, or like Christian and who's, um, believed to be like closeted called Cliff Richard.
Öykü SofuoğluHOST
He's also like recording, uh, next to the studio, and then they go, the activists who take, who took part in the, D- Derek Jarman's film like n- like try to like force with, i- into his studio and say like, "Go outside the closet." Like they try to, they cr- they create a scene and- Meanwhile, Derek Jarman is watching them with a silly, whimsy smile on their face.
Öykü SofuoğluHOST
And he just says, "They're adults.
Anwen CrawfordGUEST
Because there is a lot of red in the film, and I sort of knew that I wanted red.
Anwen CrawfordGUEST
And, you know, I have an epigraph from Derek Jarman's Chroma about the colour red.
Anwen CrawfordGUEST
Yeah, so...
Robin AllenderHOST
Red is a moment in time.
Luke HicksGUEST
Uh, my favorite so far is Queer Edward II by Theo Ralison.
Luke HicksGUEST
It's their debut, and it is a documentary about Derek Jarman making Edward II in 1991, and, uh, it's fantastic.
Luke HicksGUEST
I mean, the thing that really blew my mind, which I, I really knew nothing about, was that Derek Jarman is just the most lovely person to spend time around.
Devika GirishHOST
[laughs]
Luke HicksGUEST
And it's like spending time in his presence, you're just really captivated by him all the time.
Luke HicksGUEST
And it's one thing to see Derek Jarman's career just in a, in a sort of academic sense, to see how experimental he was and how, like, transgressive and subversive he was, and how important he was as a queer filmmaker.
Luke HicksGUEST
But then it's like to be around him, you can understand how he got everything made and why his career existed, and it's because he is this absolutely, like, galvanizing-
Devika GirishHOST
Mm-hmm
Isabel MoirGUEST
Um, we have a lot of documentaries this year that p- show a real incredible use of archive footage, and that's something we see every year.
Isabel MoirGUEST
But this year there's some really strong titles, um, such as Queer Edward II, which is a kind of compelling behind-the-scenes documentary about Derek Jarman and his collaborators making the radical queer masterpiece, Edward II.
Isabel MoirGUEST
And there'll be lots of people you'll recognize in it, like Tilda Swinton and his collaborators.
Isabel MoirGUEST
Um, we also have the next installment of Mark Cousins' essay on the history of documentaries, The Story of Documentary Film, which chronicles the kind of 1990s.
Theo RollasonGUEST
But, you know, I very quickly knew what I wanted to make and so went ahead.
David MartosHOST
During the film, we can see very interesting footage behind the scenes of the shooting of Edward II by Derek Jarman.
David MartosHOST
How would you explain, Peter, the importance of Derek? How would you tell people watching us who was he and why is he so important to you?
Peter TatchellGUEST
Derek Jarman was an incredible, innovative, pioneering, cultural revolutionary.
Peter TatchellGUEST
He was polite, charming, but a revolutionary in art, film and many other forms.
Peter TatchellGUEST
And in his films, he tried to not only produce great art, but also to tell a social message, to have a moral purpose.
Peter TatchellGUEST
And I think not just LGBT plus people, but also black and ethnic minorities, immigrants, refugees, Muslims, Jews.
Peter TatchellGUEST
are all feeling pressure.
Nicolas RapoldHOST
I don't know if that's going to make sense if you just know what the description of it is.
Nicolas RapoldHOST
This is Queer Edward II, and this is a documentary about the making of Edward II by Derek Jarman right around 1990, 91, I think.
Nicolas RapoldHOST
1990, yeah, I think.
Jessica KiangGUEST
The film came out in 91.
Nicolas RapoldHOST
I mean, it's beyond behind the scenes.
Jessica KiangGUEST
Yes.
Jessica KiangGUEST
totally immersive yeah I really love this documentary it's it's small of course and it's kind of niche in its appeal but to those of us especially I mean I mean I grew up in Ireland obviously and I remember when Edward II came out I was in school and you know I've ever since I've been a writing about film professionally and even when I was studying film at university you know Derek Jarman was just such a huge feature of the landscape then obviously one of the pioneers of the new queer cinema movement, along with Todd Haynes and Greg Araki and people like that in the early 90s.
Jessica KiangGUEST
And the story of how this film came into being is one thing, which truly is wonderful.
Devika GirishHOST
And that's Queer Edward II by Theo Rolassen.
Devika GirishHOST
And this is a film that is largely... composed of archival footage that was shot on the set of Derek Jarman's Edward II.
Devika GirishHOST
And so it's mostly like a making-of film, but it's also one that ties the making of Edward II in with Jarman's political activism and his kind of very political approach to his own queerness, right? Yeah.
Devika GirishHOST
I know you liked it a lot.
Öykü SofuoğluGUEST
Like not all the making of films or archival documents has this consistency of tonality because it feels like a Verite style documentary on its own.
Öykü SofuoğluGUEST
And it is shot by Seamus McGarvey, who later had become a very important cinematographer.
Öykü SofuoğluGUEST
But at that time, he was very young and he was assigned by Derek Jarman to basically hang around and shoot what is happening at the set, in the production offices.
Öykü SofuoğluGUEST
And the interesting part of the documentary is also that it's not just about the set, but also what's going on in the production offices.
Anne ThompsonHOST
a three-hour performance every night.
Ryan LattanzioHOST
Whereas his ex-boyfriend, Derek Jarman, is saying, you need to come out in public and say that you are sick, and this could change the entire narrative of how we're being represented right now because this is 1990.
Ryan LattanzioHOST
We're still in a time where political forces and suppression are working against health infrastructure for AIDS and support for its victims and all of these things.
Ryan LattanzioHOST
Despite Andrew Scott being very good in this movie, I think, unfortunately, it's not very well made.
Andrea FranckeHOST
It also allows a depth of inquiry into that shared and long history.
Andrea FranckeHOST
It helped us surely to see Derek Jarman's film, Blue, the miraculous contemplation on sight and the monochrome, through the lens of his own paintings, as much as through Yves Klein, the blueprint and blue film stock.
Andrea FranckeHOST
A lens is not about a material process or a defined specific medium.
Andrea FranckeHOST
It is something that informs or channels a reading, as light is channeled and concentrated through a lens.
Andrea FranckeHOST
You could you could graduate on any, you know, and you can go on to do anything.
Andrea FranckeHOST
But the idea was that art was a fundamental part of like how you can teach someone.
Andrea FranckeHOST
certain things and to be in a certain way not to be an art like an art that school was not about being an artist and I think that to me is really interesting when he's talking about the example of Derek Jarman and a film and the idea that you you can go to I firmly believe this that you can go to a painting BA and you can um become a filmmaker or a writer and what I'm interested and I keep marking and I made a list of these things because I I I If anyone listened to the Sculpture Podcast, you know my theory is that BA Fine Art courses are actually sculpture courses.
Andrea FranckeHOST
They're not fine art.
Michael Lee RichardsonHOST
So she saw Tilda Swinton in the Manfred Kaj play Man to Man and said there was a profound subtlety about the way she took on male body language and handled maleness and femaleness.
Michael Lee RichardsonHOST
and then and so tilda obviously became her orlando prior to orlando tilda swinton had she's kind of best known as a long-term collaborator of derek jarman she had this career in theater but on film she was known for her collaboration with jarman starring in things like caravaggio aria the last of england uh the garden and edward ii um tilda swinton feelings Love her.
Michael Lee RichardsonHOST
Love her? A legend.
Michael Lee RichardsonHOST
I've got Tilda Swinton feelings that I can't talk about.
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Michael Lee RichardsonHOST
When did you first encounter Orlando?
Callum SinclairHOST
So I hadn't read the book, but I went through, I would call it a phase, but as a teenager, I think I've spoken on the podcast before that I was into Shakespeare.
Callum SinclairHOST
I managed to find through our local library, a VHS copy of Derek Jarman's adaptation of The Tempest.
Callum SinclairHOST
So I kind of...
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